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Wide-field surveys have markedly enhanced the discovery and study of solar system objects (SSOs). The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) represents the foremost facility dedicated to optical time-domain surveys in the northern…

In the preparation for ESA's Euclid mission and the large amount of data it will produce, we train deep convolutional neural networks on Euclid simulations classify solar system objects from other astronomical sources. Using transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Maggie Lieu , Luca Conversi , Bruno Altieri , Benoît Carry

We present a novel method for extracting moving objects from TESS data using machine learning. Our approach uses two stacked 3D U-Nets with skip connections, which we call a W-Net, to filter background and identify pixels containing moving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Brian P. Powell , Jorge Martinez-Palomera , Amy Tuson , Christina Hedges , Jessie Dotson , Jordan Caraballo-Vega

We introduce a novel search technique that can identify trans-neptunian objects in three to five exposures of a pointing within a single Hubble Space Telescope orbit. The process is fast enough to allow the discovery of candidates soon…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cesar I. Fuentes , Matthew J. Holman , David E. Trilling , Pavlos Protopapas

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a synoptic survey designed to explore the transient and variable sky in a wide variety of cadences. We use PTF observations of fields that were observed multiple times (>=10) per night, for several…

We present the first results of the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS), a survey whose objective is to detect and follow up optical transients with characteristic timescales from hours to days, especially the earliest hours of supernova…

In this paper we present a two-step neural network model to separate detections of solar system objects from optical and electronic artifacts in data obtained with the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS), a near-Earth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Amandin Chyba Rabeendran , Larry Denneau

A very unique strength of the Devasthal Observatory is its capability of detecting optical transients with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) and to rapidly follow them up using the 1.3-m Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope…

The {\it Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (TESS) searches for planets transiting bright and nearby stars using high-cadence, large-scale photometric observations. Full Frame Images provided by the TESS mission include large number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. McNeill , M. Mommert , D. E. Trilling , J. Llama , B. Skiff

Modern astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are capable of detecting thousands of transient events per year, necessitating the use of automated and scalable data analysis techniques. Recent advances in machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

The Euclid Ecliptic Survey was conducted during the calibration phase of the mission, 23-31 December 2023, as a campaign to study Solar System objects. We used data from this survey to analyse more than 23 000 appeareances of 2321 known…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 B. Y. Irureta-Goyena , B. Altieri , J. -P. Kneib , M. Pöntinen , O. R. Hainaut , M. R. Alarcon , M. Granvik , A. A. Nucita , B. Carry , M. Devogele , M. Mahlke , R. Vavrek , T. Müller , E. Vilenius , C. Snodgrass , R. Kohley , C. Lemon , P. Gómez-Alvarez , G. Verdoes Kleijn , J. Licandro , S. Kruk , L. Conversi , A. Franco , G. Buenadicha , P. Mas-Buitrago , K. Kuijken , S. Andreon , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , R. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , C. Dolding , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , I. M. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , E. Sihvola , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , F. M. Zerbi , J. García-Bellido , J. Martín-Fleitas , V. Scottez , G. Helou , D. Scott

We describe digital tracking, a method for asteroid searches that greatly increases the sensitivity of a telescope to faint unknown asteroids. It has been previously used to detect faint Kuiper Belt objects using the Hubble Space Telescope…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Aren Heinze , Stanimir Metchev , Joseph Trollo

We present an application of Deep Learning for the image recognition of asteroid trails in single-exposure photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Using algorithms based on multi-layered deep Convolutional Neural Networks, we report…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 Andrei A. Parfeni , Laurentiu I. Caramete , Andreea M. Dobre , Nguyen Tran Bach

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will photometrically monitor approximately 1 billion stars for ten years. The resulting light curves can be used to detect transiting exoplanets. In particular, as demonstrated by Lund et al.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-24 Savannah R. Jacklin , Michael B. Lund , Joshua Pepper , Keivan G. Stassun

Compared with previous space-borne surveys, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides a unique and new approach to observe Solar System objects. While its primary mission avoids the vicinity of the ecliptic plane by…

HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) pathfinder is an in-orbit demonstration consisting of a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative detectors for the monitoring of cosmic high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Riccardo Crupi , Giuseppe Dilillo , Kester Ward , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Fabrizio Fiore , Andrea Vacchi

The rotational properties of small near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) provide crucial insights into their internal structure and collisional history. However, systematic surveys targeting metre- to decametre-sized bodies are rare, thus leaving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Miguel R. Alarcon , Javier Licandro , Miquel Serra-Ricart

We perform high fidelity simulations of a wide-field telescopic survey searching for Near-Earth Objects (NEO) larger than 140\,m, focusing on the observational and detection model, detection efficiency and accuracy. As a test survey we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Peter Vereš , Steven R. Chesley

We have performed a detailed survey simulation of the LSST performance with regards to near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the project's current baseline cadence. The survey shows that if the project is able to reliably generate linked sets of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Tommy Grav , Amy Mainzer , Tim Spahr

Unlike hot Jupiters or other gas giants, super-Earths are expected to have a wide variety of compositions, ranging from terrestrial bodies like our own to more gaseous planets like Neptune. Observations of transiting systems, which allow us…